Knowledges

Folding type

standard-folds

Providing artwork for paper printing

+ - Standard artwork : Bleed / Trim / Live area Click to collapse

  If you cannot add Bleed/Trim to your artwork , please read "Cannot change artwork file" under this section.No matter what size of your printing matter is, a standard artwork needs to follow this "Bleed/Trim/Live Area" guideline.
Trim size is the size of the finshed page.

Bleed,  To produce a bleed is to print on paper larger than the final page size and cut down to the correct (trim) size after printing. The allowance for bleed is 4 mm.

Live Area, all text needs to stay within this area unless you want it to bleed off the page. All photos or other graphics that you do not want to bleed need to stay within this area. The 8mm. margin allows the printing press to have room to trim properly.

artwork-bleed-trim-live.jpg

namecardtrim-700

A5-size-with-bleed-R-L-page

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+ - Cannot change artwork file Click to collapse

Can't change your artwork ?

In case the artwork cannot be changed and no parts of it can be cut out, we will reduce the size of your artwork to be placed on the paper leaving 4mm. white border around. See the picture belowg7-artwork-reduced-size

+ - File format for printing Click to collapse

File format for printing

PDF-Icon-50JPG-IconTo make sure that we produce the same output as you see on your side, you need to convert and send your file in jpg or pdf format.  Our preferred file format for receiving artwork is as a pdf. In case you want us to change text on your artwork,

  1. Please send us your original file with all fonts used in your file (Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign).
  2. All linked files are used by your Illustrator or InDesign file.

Bleed / Trim / Live area

No matter what size of your printing matter is, your artwork needs to follow this guideline. See the sample artworks. 

Trim size is the size of the finshed page.

Bleed,  To produce a bleed is to print on paper larger than the final page size and cut down to the correct (trim) size after printing. The allowance for bleed is 4 mm.

Live Area, all text needs to stay within this area unless you want it to bleed off the page. All photos or other graphics that you do not want to bleed need to stay within this area. The 8mm. margin allows the printing press to have room to trim properly.

Can't change your artwork ?

In case you cannot change the artwork and don't want any part to be cut out. We can help by reducing the size of your artwork area about 3mm and add the white border on each side. Please see the picture no.2 below.

 Picture no.1

artwork-bleed-trim-live.jpg

Picture no.2

g7-artwork-reduced-size

Difference between catalog, brochure, leaflet, insert, pamphlet, flyers?

catalog is a bound book or booklet show products

brochure - a pamphlet that has more information about a product, event, or service than a catalog has.

leaflet is a single sheet printed on one or both sides and often folded

insert - loose ad inserted into an newspaper or mag.

pamphlet - usually not bound. Can be a leaflet or multiple pages

flyers - are leaflets that are handed out instead of mailed or inserted.

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